Edgar Cherubini Lecuna

María Alejandra TORRES REYES & Marjorie ORTIZ

 
Title of the article
En clínicas se hace de todo para curar homosexualidad
Name of media
Diario El Universo
Country
Ecuator

María Alejandra TORRES REYES started journalism in 2003 at 20 years old. She started as a political writer and news anchor for Radio City. Since 2007, she has been working in the Sunday section of El Universo, which produces reports and investigations that are published every Sunday.

Marjorie ORTIZ was a reporter at Radio Tropicana form April 1995 to July 1998. Since 1999, she is Special editor at El Universo.

The investigative report discovered and denounced clandestine centres (which called themselves "clinics"), that offered to "remove" and "cure" homosexuality in exchange for money and, in most cases, with the permission of the family of the supposed "patients".
The owners used violent and illegal methods. The "therapies" included beatings, electricity on the genitals, pornographic videos, taking hard drugs and pills for hours or days, and injections of hormones (male or female). Sometimes even rapes occured. Thanks to this report, the authorities (who were unaware of this issue) closed these torture centres. The media had never spoken of these centres in the country and few people knew that they existed.

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